GlusterFS Heketi layout for smart GlusterFS management
The Heketi project (https:/
Our plan is to use Heketi in the GlusterFS drivers to achieve a much more scalable GlusterFS management mechanism.
Utilizing the Heketi client library (https:/
Design considerations:
- Heketi is assumed to be fed by raw resources (nodes and clusters) by the storage admin before putting it to use for Manila.
- The setup will also require to have the nodes set up with key based ssh
- The association scheme of the Heketi layout will be the same as that of volume layout, ie. a share is backed by a whole volume.
- However, there is no pre-allocated volume pool; share creation is handled by volume creation, share
deletion is handled by volume deletion.
- Share resize can be implemented with quota, as for vol layout (cf. https:/
- We will set up cert based auth for the volumes we manage to reliably seal the volumes from unsolicited access. (This is almost a logical necessity: given that Heketi puts us into the storage admin's seat to a high degree, we can't get away with just hinting at various possible ways to block unsolicited / out-of-band access, rather we have to set up the volumes so that we take care of if; and then the only suitably flexible and reliable way to do this is to use cert based auth.)
- Currently we'll assume that the layout will create and sign the gluster keys (being the single CA used in the setup).
- The layout will deploy the gluster keys to nodes of the volumes upon volume creation and expansion through ssh.
- The Manila host will have to be set up with keys and authorized to access the volumes, similarly to how it is with glusterfs-native driver.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Ben Swartzlander
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Csaba Henk
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Csaba Henk
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for newton
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- newton-1
- Started by
- Ben Swartzlander
- Completed by
- Goutham Pacha Ravi
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
Gerrit topic: https:/
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glusterfs: introducing Heketi layout
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gluster*: clean up volume option querying
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glusterfs: heketi: Add support for JWT Auth
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